Old Age Flashcards by théo Besson

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Les personnes âgées

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The old / the old people / the elderly

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La vieillesse

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Old age

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Un vieil homme / une vieille dame

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An old man / an old lady

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Une personne du troisième âge

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A senior citizen / a senior / a third-ager

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Vieillir

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To grow old / to get old

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Prendre de l’âge

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To be getting on in years

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Les plus de 70 ans

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The over-70s

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Un septuagénaire

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A seventy-year-old man

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Un octogénaire

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An eighty-year-old man

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Un centenaire

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A centenarian

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Grissonner

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To go grey

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Un homme aux cheveux blancs

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A white-haired man

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Avoir les cheveux blancs

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To have white hair

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Être chauve / la calvitie

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To be bald / baldness

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Une ride

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A wrinkle / a line

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Les infirmités de la vieillesse

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The infirmities of old age

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Vulnérable

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Vulnerable

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Handicapé

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Disabled

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L’impuissance (sexuelle) / impuissant

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Impotence / impotent

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La faiblesse / faible

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Weakness / weak

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S’affaiblir

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To weaken

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La maladie

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Illness / sickness

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Être en bonne / mauvaise santé

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To be in good health / in poor health

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La sénilité / sénile

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Senility / senile

Perdre la mémoire

To lose one's memory

La perte de mémoire

Memory loss

Nécessiter des soins particuliers

To require special care

Être grabataire

To be bed-ridden

Une maison de retraite

A home for the aged

Une maison médicalisée

A nursing home / an old people's home

La gériatrie

Geriatrics

Un gérontologue

A gerontologist / a geriatrician

L'âgisme, le racisme anti-vieux

Agism / ageism / age discrimination

Être rejetée par la société

To be rejected by society

Le pouvoir économique des personnes âgées

Grey power

Il n'y a pas si longtemps que ça

Not so long ago

Respirer la santé

To look the picture of health

Être tenu pour responsable de

To be held responsible for